checkpatch: Excuse reverts from "summary line over 75 characters" check
Rather than forcing authors of reverts to truncate the summary line
because the "Revert" prefix added pushes it over the character limit,
excuse reverts from this rule.
Change-Id: I395dfff3327e360ef935d4a685c38df6577e3867
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 3c09aeb415d542b08257021992aadd965fcb3902)
Signed-off-by: Sudhir Sharma <sudsha@codeaurora.org>
(cherry picked from commit 952824addcec8487b8c800b0ef18ede547711381)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 776e193..4c655c2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1726,7 +1726,7 @@
$subjectline = $line;
$sublinenr = "#$linenr & ";
# Check for Subject line less than line limit
- if (length($1) > SHORTTEXT_LIMIT) {
+ if (length($1) > SHORTTEXT_LIMIT && !($1 =~ m/Revert\ \"/)) {
WARN("LONG_SUMMARY_LINE",
"summary line over " .
SHORTTEXT_LIMIT .
@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@
# headers so we are now in the shorttext.
$shorttext = IN_SHORTTEXT_BLANKLINE;
$shorttext_exspc = 4;
- if (length($1) > SHORTTEXT_LIMIT) {
+ if (length($1) > SHORTTEXT_LIMIT && !($1 =~ m/Revert\ \"/)) {
WARN("LONG_SUMMARY_LINE",
"summary line over " .
SHORTTEXT_LIMIT .